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ON SMALL MAMMALS FROM THE KACHIN PROHNOE 

 NORTHERN BUR^U. 



BY 



Oldfield Thomas. 

 {Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



I owe to the kindness of the authorities of the Bombay Natural 

 History Society the opportunity of working out two small collections 

 of mammals from the north of Burma, which have been received 

 by them. One was made by Mr. P. M. Leonard in the extreme 

 north and the other by Mr. F. Kingdon Ward a little further south 

 and east, but both in the Kachin Province, the northernmost section 

 of Burma, which runs up between North-Eastern Assam and the Chi- 

 nese boundary, and is drained by the upper affluents of the Irrawady. 

 All this country is at a very high level — 6,000' and upwards. 



This region is so httle surveyed that the Collectors have found 

 it advisable to record the latitude and longitude of the localities 

 where they obtained the specimens — a most useful proceeding in 

 little known countries. 



As might be expected, there are several new forms to be described, 

 notably the pretty flying squirrel I have named after Mr. Leonard, 

 the fine stoat, Mustela hamptoni, which represents M. subhemachalana 

 in this region, and the large Bamboo-rat, Rhizomys wardi, of Imaw 

 Bum. 



The two collections coming from one faunal area I have not 

 thought it necessary to make two separate lists, but the specimens 

 are all credited to their respective collectors. 



The majority of Mr. Ward's specimens were obtained high up on 

 the great mountain Imaw Bum. 



With their usual generosity a first set of the species, and all the 

 types, have been presented to the National Museum by the Bombay 

 Natural History Society. 



(1) Rhinolophus luctus, Temm. 



cjl6. Kangfang, Ngawchang Valley, 5,000'.— F. K. Ward. 



(2) SOEEX BEDFOEDI^, ThoS. 



cj L Imaw Bum, 9,000'.— F. K. Ward. 



(3) SORICULUS CAUDATUS, HodgS. 



d 3, 14. Imaw Bum, 9—11,000' F. K. Ward. 

 The anterior teeth of these specimens quite agree with those of 

 ;S'. caudatus, and equally difter in their small size from those of the 

 IVIishmi S. baileyi, Thomas. 



(4) SoRicuLUS MACRURUS, Blauf. 

 S 11, 12 ; 2 13. Imaw Bum, 11,000'-F. K. Ward. 



